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"...what is art? Privacy exposed to radiant light."
— Mu Xin, Chinese Landscape Painter
Undef, User 632 (2013). Animated GIF documentation of real-time visualization of data collected from passersby.
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the Web around the theme of privacy and surveillance. The projects listed below are tied to these themes in different ways: some take positions or raise questions on the new technological environments, some offer solutions for a world in which "just like the animals, we need to start adapting new ways to conceal ourselves from the autocratic predators" [source], while others collect and re-purpose ambient data in creative ways.


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Natasha Bedingfield grew up in southeast London, where she and her siblings were raised around music. By their teens, Natasha, brother Daniel, and sister Nikola had formed an R&B-based singing group. It didn't last, but the experience encouraged the Bedingfields to keep pursuing music. In 2001 and 2002 Daniel Bedingfield scored a hit with the single "Gotta Get Through This," and the following year it was Natasha's turn. Leaving university to sign with BMG, Natasha immediately started working on her first record. Buoyed by advance singles like "These Words" and "Single," Unwritten debuted at number one on the British charts. The golden reception for Bedingfield's rhythmic pop sound netted her platinum record sales and numerous BRIT awards. It also set up her assault on the American pop charts, which began in July 2005 with Unwritten's domestic release. In 2007 the single "I Wanna Have Your Babies" announced the coming of her sophomore effort, N.B. That album, however, was never released in the U.S. Instead, a reworked version -- half of N.B. plus six new songs -- found its way onto American shores as Pocketful of Sunshine in early 2008. In 2009, Bedingfield married businessman/filmmaker Matt Robinson and began working on writing new material while vacationing in New Zealand. Bedingfield's third studio album, Strip Me, featuring production from OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, was slated for release in November of 2010. ~ Johnny Loftus~ Rovi

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MapSt. Mary's River and Fernandina harbor, Florida Scale 1:20,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 120.5 From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing progress of the survey during the year 1862 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1864). Map 31. "No. 31" in the upper left corner. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
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Gold coin worth more than $1,300 Dropped in Red Kettle
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) – Bells will be ringing and George Hairston will be the joyful man to wish you happy holidays at the Flower Hill Giant Food Store in Gaithersburg.
It's what he did last week when he noticed something different.
"That day, I noticed this man with a hospital mask on his face. And he had this big thing," said Hairston, who has been a ringing the bell at the red kettles for the Salvation Army for three years. "And it took time for him to put it in there. You can see the hole is not that big," he said.
A card was wrapped around a gold coin.
"It says 'Glory to God in the highest and on Earth, peace, goodwill towards men'," said Capt. Karl Dahlin with the Salvation Army.
So far, the man in the medical mask is anonymous.
"We'll be using all of these funds to support our programs that are with emergency assistance programs," said Dahlin.
The coin says $50 on it, but the real value is in the weight. It's one ounce of pure gold and it could be worth more than $1,300.
The Salvation Army will hold onto it until after Christmas to see if the donor comes forward. If not, they will cash in the value.
It's happened before, but this one comes at a good time.
"The statistics say we're down 13% percent over the same day last year," said Dahlin.
People dropping in donations are learning about the generosity and hoping others are inspired.
"When someone does something like this, it tells people even the little things matter," said Luis Orozco, a donor.


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Theme restaurants are all the rage in Asia. My daughter Carly has been teaching English for the last three summers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. She has sent me the most interesting and colourful pictures from restaurants like the Hello Kitty Cafe where all the food is shaped like Hello Kitty, the Barbie Cafe, The Ninja Restaurant, A380 an airplane restaurant, and yikes, the Modern Toilet Restaurant, where they, well I won't tell you.
Over the years I have made murder mystery dinners, Japanese and Pan Asian themed dinners and many dress-up tea parties. But the favourite and most well received theme party is my Italian dessert night. The desserts aren't actually Italian, but when my guests sit down at a table that is decked out with a red and white checkered tablecloth, they think that they are going to be fed an actual Italian dinner.
Pasta desserts are not such a weird concept, actually there are many desserts made of pasta. The Italians are known for Torta di Tagliatelle, fresh pasta cake, while the Jews of Eastern Europe have been creating kugels, sweet pasta puddings with cottage cheese, raisins and cinnamon, for centuries. Of course the pasta in this cake is really just icing!
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Banana Cake With Chocolate Chips
9 in. spring form pan lined with a circle of parchment paper and sprayed with canola oil.
3/4 cup canola oil
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. pure vanilla
6 large ripe to overripe bananas
2 cups flour
1 tsp.baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350. In food processor, mix oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add bananas and combine well.
Add dry ingredients and pulse until combined. Add chocolate chips and run machine until chips have been combined and some chips are chopped into smaller pieces.
Pour into pan and tap on counter to remove any bubbles. Bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes and run an offset spatula around the outside of the cake. Remove cake from pan and remove the parchment paper. Transfer cake to a large pasta bowl or platter. Set aside until completely cooled.
1 can of white frosting
4 drops yellow food colour
Mix frosting with food colouring until well blended. Fill a piping bag, with a plain circle tip, with frosting. Pipe spaghetti strands starting at the bottom of the cake up the sides to about 2-3 inches in from top edge. Leave the middle area of the cake empty. Continue circling and overlapping with the piping bag over already piped strands until it resembles spaghetti on a plate.
Tomato Sauce
1-2 jars low sugar strawberry jam
Heat jam for 1 minute in the microwave. Spoon some jam to cover open space in middle of the cake
I box of Ferrero Rocher, about 16 pieces
Place chocolates in a bowl and cover with jam and toss. Place over jam covered area of cake, some "meatballs" on top of others.
Parmesan Cheese
Shaved white chocolate, using a vegetable peeler or grater or flaked coconut
Sprinkle chocolate or coconut "cheese" over meatballs.
When cake is all assembled keep refrigerated until 1 hour before serving. May be prepared one day ahead.
Make this amazing dessert in advance, and then freeze it until party time. Use a metal pizza pan to get the best effect. Use your imagination to come up with additional interesting toppings.
Pizza Crust
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla
1 cup flour
Preheat oven to 475. In food processor, combine butter, sugar and vanilla. Add flour and pulse until combined. Remove from processor and form into a ball. Flatten and pat into the bottom of a 16- in. pizza pan, thicken the crust around edge of the pan to resemble an ordinary pizza crust. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool. When cool, cover and place in freezer.
Pizza Toppings
• 1 litre french vanilla ice cream = Mozzarella cheese
• 1 jar strawberry jam= tomato sauce
• dried banana chips = sliced zucchini
• cashew nuts, unsalted = mushrooms
• green and red candied cherries, diced = red and green peppers
• flaked coconut = shredded Parmesan cheese
• green candied cherries, whole = olives
When the pizza crust is frozen, warm strawberry jam for 1 minute in microwave.
Slice whole green cherries in half and place a piece of red cherry in hole to resemble olives with pimento.
Spoon about 1/4 of the jam around outside edge of crust up to thicker edge. Then spoon 1/4 more of the jam over the entire crust. Soften the ice cream and spread it over the crust to thicker edge. Spoon more jam over the ice cream to resemble tomato sauce showing through cheese.
Sprinkle banana chips, cashew nuts, diced cherries, sliced cherry "olives" and coconut over pizza. Place in freezer until frozen. Remove from freezer and wrap well in plastic wrap, return to freezer until ready to serve.
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Hi- I'm looking at the ferry schedule on line and I'm confused. What are the ferry times to St Crox? Is there only two runs during a day? Thanks. M.
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My understanding yes, just two runs a day to St Croix. It is a brand new service. I imagine, as time rolls by, the number of trips will increase. The pontoon plane used to go several times a day between St Thomas and St Croix. It is by Seaborne Air.
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Diane Francis, a dual Canadian-American citizen, is the author of "Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country."
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has accomplished what no Canadian prime minister — or any Canadian for that matter — has ever achieved.
After a video showing him smoking crack was obtained by Toronto police, he's made front pages around the world, become a Twitter sensation and been featured by Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel in the same evening. The last time a Canadian politician attained any name recognition outside Canada was in 1970, when Pierre Trudeau dated Barbra Streisand.
"Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine," Ford told reporters Tuesday. "But no, do I, am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? . . . Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago." He blamed alcohol — a claim bolstered by an "impaired rant" posted online Thursday by the Toronto Star. He blamed the press for not asking the correct questions. Then he refused to resign, and his popularity rose to 44 percent, according to a recent poll by Forum Research.
I suspect that more Americans now know the name of Toronto's mayor than know the name of Canada's prime minister. (It's Stephen Harper. Just FYI.)
That's because Ford's an exception — an American-style political train wreck. Americans perceive Canada as the place next door that exports logs, hockey players and cold fronts. It's frustrating but understandable. Why pay attention to the polite neighbor who never complains and always uses headphones?
Canadians, like Americans living in Omaha or Rochester or Montpelier, accept that they rarely get to bask in the limelight.
But when you're no longer being treated like a pliant kid brother, it's welcome. That's why, after Ford's admission, triumphalist pro-Canadian tweets followed. "Rob Ford goes global!" read one. Another gushed: "And people say Canada never makes the news in the U.S."
The fact is that, most days, Canadians just don't feel the love. A Pew Research Center poll of 39 countries published this summer showed that Canadian respondents, by 2 to 1, said the United States doesn't consider Canada's interests. The poll also found that respondents in France, Poland, Britain, Italy and Germany felt Washington cared slightly more about them.
Attempts to generate recognition are humiliating: the Canadian government's ads in D.C.'s Metro and in U.S. newspapers designed to sell Americans on Keystone XL because the oil sands are in a friendly jurisdiction called Alberta that is really close by. Then there were the War of 1812 ads we produced earlier this year to boost Canadian pride in a conflict that nobody cares much about.
Ford is box office boffo because he upends American stereotypes about Canadians and, for what it's worth, Canada's self-image.
Canadians are cleaner, nicer and slimmer than their southern neighbors. They watch hockey, recycle and never do drugs. They are polite and apologize if they bump into machinery. Even their postgame celebrations are tame, rarely turning into riots. When fans in Vancouver did riot in June 2011 after the Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals to the Boston Bruins, the image that went 'round the world was of a couple kissing in the street.
In Canada, scary becomes cuddly.
Gawker, which broke the Ford video story in May, exploited this stereotype viciously: "Rob Ford looks like the kind of red-faced American trash who would knock down an old lady in the WalMart pharmacy line just to get his brother's oxycontin prescription five minutes faster," national correspondent Ken Layne wrote. A self-proclaimed Canadian waded in apologetically and posted this comment on Gawker's site: "We're 100% as fat as Americans. Believe me. Our false sense of superiority over Americans is baseless. We're just as bad as you are. So don't feel bad."
Frankly, I relish the notoriety. Ford has worked over the national brand, but he's made Canada interesting. As an arch BBC anchor said gleefully: "Finally, something has actually happened in Toronto. But how do Torontonians feel being made famous on the back of the mayor smoking crack cocaine?"
Mister Brit, it feels okay. After all, everyone knows that any publicity is good publicity, eh?
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What's the next best thing to travel to Provence? The souvenirs that help you remember your trip. Of course you can discover fabulous French designs and jewelry in the chic boutiques in the luxury hotspots of Nice, Cannes, Antibes/Juan-les-Pins and St. Tropez.
But here's a list of the top items you can find in markets and at local producers to remember and share the real flavor of the South of France. (Except wine. That's a whole other story). Some are delightful and still inexpensive, while others are a real travel splurge. High or Low end in cost, here are some travel shopping tips to help you make the best of countless choices shopping in Provence.
By: Lynn Elmhirst, Executive Producer and Host, BestTrip.TV
The characteristically sunny tones and regional prints of Provencal kitchen linens are an ideal gift to yourself or anyone in your life. They instantly brighten up your kitchen or bring the zest of the Mediterranean to outdoor entertaining in the summer. Oddly, the shops have aprons galore, and they're cute, but does anyone really wear them?? Do you? I don't even know any French women who use aprons.
The colors of Provence in linen c BestTrip.TV
Tip: I'm very practical. I opt for things that are very useful: napkins you can offer guests at home outdoors in the summer with Mediterranean canapes and frosty Provencal rose wine, or, my favorite, a quilted square with ties at each corner that, once tied, create a fabric basket for French bread or fruit.
If you have little girls to shop for, Provencal linen dresses are hard to resist! c BestTrip.TV
High/Lo rating: Linens aren't cheap, starting in the tens of euros and going up into the hundreds depending on workmanship or if you get into clothing. But they weigh virtually nothing, so it won't overload your luggage and cost you excess baggage fees.
Marseille Soap
Every guest bathroom should be honored with the iconic Savon de Marseilles in the scents of Provence. Marseilles soap has set the benchmark of pure, gentle, and delectable soaps since its creation. Buying it is such fun, it's like following the yellow brick road! Shopkeepers must feel like they're kids with Lego again, setting up displays of bars, with different colors for different scents: lavender for lavender (!), delicate pink for rose, mossy green for pure olive oil.
The original color blocking! c BestTrip.TV
Tip: You don't have to buy them in Marseilles, they're all over Provence; I bought some recently in Avignon's market.
High/Lo rating: Pocket change! You'll be tempted to fill a whole suitcase. But the weight adds up even if the price doesn't.
Olive Oil
Soap isn't the only way to bring home Provencal olive oil! If you're visiting Provence in the cooler autumn, see if you can visit an olive grove to see the harvest and the pressing first hand. Our production crew was lucky enough to be given a tour and then a tasting of the grassy oil right out of the first press, then properly aged variations. You realize you don't really know what olive oil is supposed to taste like until you've tasted it at the source!
Filming an Olive Oil Tasting at a Family Olive Farm and Press, Provence c BestTrip.TV
Tip: Opt for tin containers, they're lighter than glass and will make the trip home better. And indulge in skin care products made from olive oil, you'll never find a better hand cream or a more soothing bath oil!
High/Lo rating: The oil itself is higher quality and less expensive for the quality than you can get at home. But some of the skin care products can be pretty pricey, even so, my French friends say they're worth the splurge!
Fleur de Sel
Is really just a fancy pants way of saying 'sea salts'. Sea salts from the south of France are justifiably famous, and any foodie friend will be tickled if you remember them with a flavored local salt. Rose scented, lavender scented, the options are countless, and equally colorful. I bought test tubes of various flavors; you can see the delicate colors and bits of rose, lavender, jasmine in the salts.
Tip: Use them where their delicate flavor can really shine: Sprinkled over a pan-fried or gently grilled piece of fresh fish or chicken when they're done cooking, or to scent rice or eggs.
High/Lo rating: Lo! Small gift packets or the test tubes are very affordable. Save, and enjoy!
Truffles may rise out of the category of 'souvenir' and into the category 'investment'. If you're a gourmet, truffles from the source are worth the splurge; and visiting a truffle farm and going out with the (highly trained!) and adorable dogs to find the truffles really puts the 'fun' in 'fungus'!
No Trespassing on this Truffle Farm! Somewhere (secret) in Provence c BestTrip.TV
Tip: Some truffle products are available in very small quantities, which make gifting them to your foodie friends quite reasonable.
High/Lo rating: High! Anything made with pure Provence truffles will be the big market / food producer souvenir splurge of your visit to the South of France.
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Nice work dude
lookin good! I really need to practice my metal skills. I' m always in awe of the work everyone does here.
Thanx guys.
Not just practice, but cut everything large, then file down to shape. It takes longer and is harder, but the stuff comes out nice.
Looking very impressive sir. Really going to have to try this metal material one of these days...
Great work, it makes me want to start building my own parts too. Better get the training on ;-)
There are many parts that I can't fabricate. Such as these whaling shocks:
Check this; I was talking to an old R/C buddy, about what ever topic. Then; because I got a new scaler to build, I told him I'm building a 1.9 scaler.
He says really? I just happent to these shocks, brand new, never been used. He runs 1/8 fast buggies, so he aint got no time for scaler shocks. I say what do ya want for them. He says, "Happy Birday".
Awesome Dude!
Thanx Pat.
And installed. They are wicked smooth:
Chassis work looks great!
when do the shock towers go into production
im going to have to start reading up on brazing, all this metal work is just incredible.
Thanx. The chassis is coming out ok. I'm very happy with the outcome so far.
Dude. Those towers were a pain to make. One really needs a CNC to produce those.
In fact; to any manufaturers out there equiped, ready to be brazed custom parts would probably be a hit.
Look up all the brazing info ya can, get the materials, and start experimenting. I'm glad I did, and pretty positive you will be too.
Parts come out so strong.
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No one knows if 1-year-old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like 6 million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia. But one day, while on her boss's property, she went to check on some goats and, according to what is known of her tale, was raped by two men. Yunus was conceived of that assault.
The two women raising the boy hope he never learns about his mother let alone his real father. The stigma of such a birth is so heinous that Yunus' mother gave him up to Normawati, 50, and her close friend Ibu Herlina, 53, who describe themselves as Yunus' adoptive grandmother and mother, respectively. However, the child's situation is not unique, and Normawati (who like many Indonesians goes by a single name) is not unused to it. Indeed, the campaigner for migrant-worker rights and her daughter are raising several children of half-foreign parentage who were abandoned by raped migrant mothers. There are dozens of children of similar backgrounds in Jakarta and its environs.
While globalization has turned much of the world into a wide-open labor market, it has also created complex human and societal dramas. Women account for up to 50% of the world's 100 millionstrong migrant-worker population and there is no effective entity to protect their rights and dignity. In 2008, Indonesians working abroad, commonly as domestic staff in the Middle East and parts of Asia, contributed about $6.8 billion to their national economy via remittances, according to the World Bank. And while statistics are difficult to come by, there are increasing reports of many who are physically abused, raped and in some cases killed by their employers.
While cases of death at the hands of overseas employers are relatively rare, Normawati says she has seen countless pregnant Indonesians coming through the gates of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after working abroad. She says the most disturbing of experiences can be heard again and again from the lips of different women: "The boss tells the woman, 'You must be with me.' Then rape."
The story behind Yunus' conception isn't even exclusive in his new home, which is not far from the airport. His adopted sister Nadia, who celebrated her first birthday on Nov. 1, was born following the rape of her mother in Kuwait. Both children were born in Jakarta and were almost immediately placed into Ibu Herlina's care. Their adopted mother points out that the children share "Arab" facial features, in contrast to most of their siblings, who have "Asian looks." Her home, consisting of a modest house and a dormitory-like shelter, is filled with 10 children who were abandoned by migrant workers. Only a few of the biological mothers have made contact with their children.
The abuse of Indonesian workers in some countries has become so notorious that Jakarta is considering placing bans on labor migration to specific destinations. Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskander says workers may soon be prevented from entering Saudi Arabia and Jordan if a "thorough review" shows that those governments are providing insufficient protections for Indonesian workers.
In many cases, Normawati explains, female migrant workers are raped and then dumped on the streets by their employers, who refuse to give them their passports after discovering that the women are pregnant. The women are then arrested by police and placed in jail. Sometimes they are deported before the child is born. Herlina claims that airport officials have called her to ask what to do with the babies who are left behind by mothers.
Normawati says there are dozens of children who were abandoned by migrant workers in homes throughout Jakarta and surrounding areas. "I'm in my house one or two days a week," she says. "I travel to see my grandchildren" as she calls the abandoned infants. Normawati and Herlina sustain their wards by way of donations as well as assistance from the families of some of the children, who are nevertheless too ashamed to raise the children themselves.
While the abandonment of the children depresses her, Herlina thinks it is better that they stay in her care. Their biological mothers are often married and have other children, she says, and the husbands who stay in Indonesia while the women work abroad are often not the type to welcome another man's offspring. It is rare for a biological mother to contact Herlina after giving away her child. Normawati agrees that many men are "sensitive" about such issues. "If the migrant worker takes her baby [to raise herself], three things could happen," she says. The first is the most common: "The husband gets angry and wants a divorce. The second one is [the woman] doesn't go home," abandoning what was once a stable home to go off on her own with her child. The third thing that could happen? It is the rarest: "The husband will accept the child."


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The MCR stands for Middle Combination Room. In Cambridge, this has three meanings:
- The physical room where postgraduate students mingle. Selwyn MCR is located in Cripps Court staircase J/K.
- The body representing postgraduates in Selwyn at College and University level.
- The community of postgraduates in general.
The MCR comprises a diverse mix of people from numerous countries and backgrounds. It also provides a sense of community in which to share the experience of life studying in Cambridge.
The MCR organises social activities including movie nights, barbecues and weekly brunches. We also organise monthly dinners and parties. The MCR is responsible for the welfare of its members and runs various schemes including the support of MCR sports development. The MCR also coordinates the allocation of rooms in college each year.
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Preparing for a mission trip? The ShortTermMissions.com staff brainstormed ideas for sharing scripture and gospel messages with the people you are serving or working alongside.
What would you add to this list?
1. Bibles and Books
Order Bibles and Christian children's books in the language of the people you will be serving. Remember that literacy might be an issue. Choose easy-reading versions and children's resources that even adults would enjoy looking at and reading over and over again.
2. Simple Gospel Presentations
Bring along gospel tracts in the appropriate language. Practice sharing the gospel with "the wordless book" or other gospel colors tools, like bracelets or soccer balls.
3. Strategic Language Learning
Learn these ten words: God, Bible, sin, Jesus, love, blood, forgive, pray, grow, baptize. Add these five phrases: Thank you, God bless you! Jesus loves you! What is your name? My name is… God made you and has a good plan for your life! John 3:16.
4. Visual Communication
Print a gospel verse on your team shirts in the language of the people where you will be serving. Post a new verse each day on your worksite for all to see; make it bilingual. Put God's Word on any kind of small gift that you give away, so it may continue to speak long after you are gone.
5. Christian Music
Bring Christian music in the native language to play on your work site. Download children's videos or songs that share basic Bible truths. Learn a couple of Christian songs in the heart language of those you will be serving. Sing them while working, or for your host family.
6. Use an Interpreter
Plan to have a Christian translator with your group and make sharing the gospel a priority.
7. Modern Media
Research apps or downloadable Christian resources in the appropriate language which you can share with others. Often MicroSD cards or flash drives are appropriate. Look for resources that include Bible translations, Bible study resources, devotional materials, or Christian music.
Don't forget to check your ideas with those who will be hosting you and ask what resources or evangelism strategies they would suggest. May the Lord bless you richly and use you mightily, together, to accomplish what He desires.
Rebecca Skinner works for Mission Data International as Marketing Director.
See also, How to give away your faith on a mission trip


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Zimbabwe police seize radios from residentsby Staff 26/03/2013 13:13:00 0 comments 675 Views
Wind-up, solar-powered radios might seem like an excellent idea to help cash-strapped Zimbabwean villagers pass the long, dark evenings.
But the authorities seem to disagree and have confiscated hundreds of sets in recent months.
Villagers in in the east of the country were terrified one night during a police raid in a door-to-door search for radios.
"By close to midnight, they had taken about 30 radios from people," said Clara Kadzviti, who lives in the village in rural Chinamora district, about 50km (30 miles) east of the capital, Harare.
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Charity Charamba Police spokesperson
She and two other villagers were made to identify their neighbours who had radios, capable of picking up FM, AM and shortwave signals, which had recently been handed out by a small non-government youth organisation that had been in the area building a road and some community toilets.
"They took my cell phones and demanded to know the identity of people in my phone," she said, explaining how bedrooms and kitchens were thoroughly inspected.
"A lot of people were taken to the police station and we were warned that those that would be found with the radios [in future] will disappear."
The confiscations have left some people fearing that in the run-up to elections, the free media guarantees in the newly approved constitution will not be respected.
But the police force has said the radios are being used to spread "hate speech", brought into the country by unregistered groups ahead of the polls expected in July after four years of power-sharing between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change.
"We have evidence that they have been smuggled in from some of the Western countries - and these radios are used to propel propaganda in the rural areas," police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said.
'Security threat'
Zimbabwe's state broadcaster, the ZBC, has a near monopoly over the airwaves - 16 months ago two broadcasting licences were granted to two commercial radio stations, one owned by the state-owned Herald newspaper and the other by a powerful businessman in Zanu-PF.
Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko arriving at a magistrate's court in Harare on 24 December 2008
Jestina Mukoko, who is being probed for illegally
distributing radios, was tortured by police in 2008/9
The more than 10 community radio projects which have applied for permission to broadcast, along with other private radio and TV concerns, since the coalition government came to power four years ago are still waiting for their licences to be approved.
"It is very diabolic the taking of the radios, people are entitled to information about what is happening in the country… taking away these radios is to force them to listen to the ZBC, which they don't want to listen to," MDC spokesman Douglas Mwonzora told the BBC.
Ms Kadzviti, 25, agreed that people needed an "alternative source of news" to the state broadcaster, widely seen as a mouthpiece for Zanu-PF and President Mugabe.
"We are sick and tired of state propaganda on ZBC," she told the BBC.
A radio cannot be confiscated summarily even in the absence of a licence"
Irene Petras Lawyer
"They twist information, subtract some or add some information that could have never happened."
Popular evening news programmes in English, Shona and Ndebele are broadcast from the US by Voice of America's Studio 7 and in English by SW Radio, a private radio station run by Zimbabweans in the UK.
Both stations say their broadcasts on shortwave and medium wave have been jammed - although Zimbabwe's authorities have never confirmed this.
Appearing before a parliamentary committee, deputy police chief Innocent Matibiri described Studio 7 as a pirate station and the radio distributions as "an unusual act of generosity" by groups which pose "a serious threat to the security of the country".
In the past, Zanu-PF has accused the West of interfering in Zimbabwean affairs and plotting Mr Mugabe's downfall.
Earlier this month the respected director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, Jestina Mukoko, spent two days in police custody being questioned on allegations of illegally distributing radios and running an unregistered NGO.
This was followed a raid in the second city Bulawayo on the offices of Radio Dialogue, an unregistered community radio station which distributes its programmes by CD.
Two hundred shortwave radios were seized and Zenzo Ndebele, the station's editor, was arrested and charged with smuggling radios into the country.
Ahead the recent referendum on a new constitution, President Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba told The Herald that foreign embassies with "sinister intentions" were suspected of complicity in this "smuggling" and were being investigated.
Radio dealers should ensure that people buying the radios had a listener licence, he added.
These licences cost $20 (£13) annually for those living in urban areas and $10 in rural areas - and cover radios and TVs.
'Political persecution'
Very few have access to radio and electricity here. This radio is my hope. I will cling on to it"
Clara Kadzviti, 25 Chinamora resident
But the timing of the civil group leaders' arrests, a few months before the general election, is worrying some, like Irene Petras, director for the Zimbabwe Human Lawyers for Human Rights.
"[It is] more of political persecution, than law enforcement," she told the BBC.
"Any person is entitled to own a radio as part of her/his fundamental right to receive information. Is it a crime to listen to radio programmes? No." she said.
"The law requires a listener to produce a licence, but a radio cannot be confiscated summarily even in the absence of a licence, as a person must be given time to pay on demand."
As well as guaranteeing rights to freedom of speech and a free media, it is also hoped the new constitution will help avoid a repeat of the violence that marred the 2008 polls.
Yet some human rights groups fear it will take more time to change Zimbabwe's culture of intimidation.
Come July, Mr Mugabe, who has been in power for 33 years and garners most of his support from those living in rural areas, will once again face Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change.
Amnesty International's Noel Kututwa has warned that the government is "attempting to stifle freedom of expression and alternative access to information" with its crackdown on radios.
Ms Charamba has said as elections approach it is not just radios that are the focus of police investigations, but other equipment distributed by NGOs like mobile phones.
"On these cell phones you can even put memory sticks to download information - to download pictures - and some of the gadgets, even like ball points [pens], which are being used to record people," the police spokeswoman said.
For Ms Kadzviti the confiscations have only made her more defiant - and she since obtained a new radio set to replace the one which was confiscated.
"Very few have access to radio and electricity here. This radio is my hope. I will cling on to it," she said.
"All I need to do is leave it outside for a while, it's solar powered. I can listen all night to news."


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Bucks falls to Golden State
David Lee scored 22 points, making his first 10 shots from the field, to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 101-80 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.
Lee added 18 rebounds for the Warriors, who have won 10 consecutive games, the team's longest streak since its NBA-title season in 1975. Stephen Curry contributed 15 points for the Warriors despite connecting on just five of 18 shots. Klay Thompson also scored 15 points.
The Warriors, playing their sixth game of a seven-city road trip, led by just two at the half against the Bucks, who have the NBA's worst record.
Golden State broke open the game with a 23-7 run to start the third quarter, highlighted by a step-back 3-pointer from the corner by Curry. Later in the quarter, Curry hit an acrobatic reverse layup while being fouled, extending Golden State's lead to 19. The Warriors led 79-68 heading into the fourth.
A 3 by O.J. Mayo cut Golden State's margin to eight to start the fourth, but the Warriors quickly built the lead back to double-digits, cruising to victory. The Warriors led by as many as 23 late in the fourth.
Ersan Ilyasova had 20 points and Brandon Knight 18 for the Bucks.
Milwaukee grabbed a 30-28 lead after the first quarter, sparked by Knight's 10 points.
Golden State opened the second quarter on a 10-0 run and went on to a 50-48 lead at the half. Lee led the way with 14 points, making all seven of his shots from the field. He added seven first-half rebounds. Golden State shot 55 percent from the field in the half, despite connecting on only four of 14 3-point attempts.
Knight had 13 first-half points for the Bucks and Ilyasova added 12.
NOTES: Ilyasova sank his first 3-point attempt of the game. He entered, having misfired on 20 consecutive 3s. . Warriors center Andrew Bogut, a No. 1 overall pick of the Bucks in 2005, played his first game in Milwaukee since a March 2012 trade that sent him to Golden State. ... Bucks coach Larry Drew said peace returned to the locker room following a dustup between teammates Larry Sanders and Gary Neal after Saturday's blowout loss at Phoenix. "We're back in love with one another. It's a very emotional game and tempers do flare," Drew said. "The most important thing is that there is no snowball effect. We make it an isolated incident." ... Draymond Green returned to the Golden State lineup after injuring his ankle early in Sunday's win over Washington.


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JEFFERSON CITY - State lawmakers weighed in Wednesday after President Obama unveiled his new gun policy proposals.
Sen. Joseph Keaveny, D-St. Louis, said he thought the president's proposals were very reasonable. He said he was particularly pleased by the proposed universal background checks and assault weapons ban.
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Pretty in Lace
17 comments:
- Bumpkin on a Swing said...
The vintage lace clothing hanging in the window is a wonderful photo. I too like the cardigan. What a lovely post...
Make sure to visit the swing today, I'm doing a little investigation, and I want to hear yours.
- April 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM
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- April 26, 2010 at 10:32 AM
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- April 26, 2010 at 1:20 PM
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- April 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Cornflakes and Honey said...
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Lace is just so gorgeous to wear and very flattering and feminine.
I've been buying a few vintage lace doilies this year and they're so cute on my dresser.
- April 26, 2010 at 5:11 PM
Love the photo of the clothes hanging in front of the window. Beautiful!
- April 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM
- trace said...
i'm with Debby - my fav is the clothes hanging in front of the window :}
- April 26, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- I Love Pretty Little Things said...
Your pictures are so pretty! I love lace. It's so romantic and girlie.
Thanks for visiting my blog, and yes, I think that you do need a "Garden Girl" apron!
- April 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM
- koralee said...
I am loving all your lace!!! Nothing is as pretty! Hugs for a great week.xoxo
- April 26, 2010 at 9:35 PM
- Miles Of Style said...
amazing images. i LOVE no.7 the most!
- April 26, 2010 at 11:19 PM
- shopgirl said...
What a beautiful collection of outfits. I hope you get your wish!
Wishing you a happy week!
- April 27, 2010 at 2:15 AM
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- April 27, 2010 at 3:00 AM
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- April 27, 2010 at 3:13 AM
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Back when Hootie & the Blowfish were the biggest thing in pop music, Darius Rucker was the lead singer. But he wasn't really the leader, if you know what I mean. That would be the band's lead guitarist Mark Bryan.
So now that Rucker is heading out and doing his own headlining tour, he told CMT Radio how different it all is: "To be honest with you, when I was with Hootie, I was a singer — that's all I did. … I didn't put together the shows. I was a singer in Mark Bryan's band. So I just showed up and sang," he said.
Referring to his solo career, he added, "With this — over here, doing my own — I gotta get the band together, I gotta rehearse, I gotta decide what's gonna go up. … How are we gonna do a show? That's all on me."
Hopefully he's made all those decisions and done all that rehearsing because Rucker's tour kicks off Friday (May 17) in Georgia and continues through September.


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NZ stabbing murder accused refused bail
AN 18-year-old charged with the New Year murder of a Queenslander holidaying at Waihi Beach in New Zealand has been denied bail.
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Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.
Gaucho wrote:Well, the Marsalis brothers. McCoy Tyner.
Gaucho wrote:Sad news. RIP, Dave.
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Trying to think of the remaining jazz greats that are still alive. Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Kenny Burrell...who else?
columbia wrote:He died in the mid 90s.
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Get ready to pay more to fly
Want to change your flight? That'll be $200 extra
By Jennifer Waters, MarketWatch
As air travelers become inured to baggage fees, airlines are betting they'll accept additional extra charges.
In fact, 2012 was a record year for extra-fee revenues: U.S. airlines raked in a staggering $6.03 billion in baggage and reservation-change fees, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. And it's likely they will climb even higher in 2013. "We're going to see more and more higher fees and new categories of fees," says George Hobica, founder of AirfareWatchdog.com.
Delta outpaced both its legacy rivals and smaller carriers in baggage-fee revenue, chalking up a jaw-dropping $866 million. United took second place at $706 million. (Delta merged with Northwest Airlines, and United merged with Continental.) American, still without a merger partner at the dance, racked up $557 million. Its suitor, U.S. Airways, came in fourth with $516 million — together, they would have left their counterparts in the dust at $1.07 billion.
As for cancellation fees, Delta again took the top spot, collecting $778 million in 2012, while United pocketed $661 million. American added $518 million to its top line as U.S. Airways brought in $298 million.
And those figures are only going to swell. In what FareCompare.com chief executive Rick Seaney calls "the worst fee ever," cancellation charges already have risen: United last month upped its change fees to $200 from $150. As is typical of the herd mentality of the airline industry, American, Delta and U.S. Airways followed suit.
That basically renders some tickets unchangeable. If you bought a one-way discount ticket for $200 and wanted to change your flight, it would cost you another $200. Hobica thinks the change-fee hike isn't targeted at discount leisure travelers but at business travelers who carriers hope will opt for the more pricey nonrefundable tickets. If the difference between the refundable and the nonrefundable fee is $300 but a change fee is $200 on a nonrefundable ticket, "business travelers might be more apt to choose the nonrefundable fee from the beginning," he says.
Meanwhile, Frontier Airlines has introduced new charges that it hopes other carriers will follow, thereby decreeing an industrywide acceptance that travelers just have to, well, accept. So far, however, the legacy carriers are standing still.
Beginning this summer, Frontier will require passengers who bought tickets through a third party to pay carry-on baggage fees of up to $100. That's right, for carry-on bags. The goal here is for travelers to bypass discount online providers like Expedia, Kayak or Hotwire, not to mention travel agents, in favor of Frontier's own booking site.
Airplane wi-fi to speed up
The FCC is expected to approve a proposal that could speed up airplane Internet speeds. Photo: AP
If you buy the carry-on choice in advance, it will cost you $25. But it doubles to $50 if you pay at the counter or at an airport kiosk. It doubles again to $100 if you purchase it at the gate. But buy your tickets at FlyFrontier.com and the carry-on bag is included in the airfare.
Frontier also said it will begin charging $1.99 for coffee, tea, soda and juice on all flights. It's unclear if taxes will be charged.
Frontier, which is transforming itself into what it calls the "ultra low-cost" carrier, is following the lead of Allegiant and Spirit airlines. Those carriers offer bargain-basement tickets for flights, but tack on exorbitant fees for everything else. Frontier's carry-on bag charges, however, are steeper than Allegiant and Spirit.
Airline experts expect the carriers to again up their baggage fees, but at this point most are a standard $25 for the first bag. It's the second bag that will cost you much more, depending on where you're going, according to AirfareWatchdog.com.
For a thorough rundown of baggage fees by carrier, see AirfareWatchdog's baggage-fee chart.)


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The quick and easy answer to that question is about 2 shots per game.
It was announced last night that David Booth, an early-season trade pickup by Mike Gillis, will be out 4-to-6 weeks with a MCL injury sustained in Tuesday's 6-0 win over Colorado. Booth was the victim of a knee-on-knee collision from Colorado's Kevin Porter, who can expect a howler from Brendan Shanahan's office sometime Thursday or Friday.
The well-coiffed Christian, who is not only an excellent possession player, is also one of the first athletes to use Twitter to quote scripture in an attempt to heal. Unfortunately for the Christian, he was ruled out for a while a couple of hours after that, but, heck, it could have been a lot worse.
Since Booth's arrival to the Vancouver Canucks, he has taken just under three shots on goal per game, and his possession numbers and scoring chance differential, playing with Chris Higgins and Ryan Kesler, has been fantastic. With the score tied, the Canucks have had possession of the puck 66.4% of the time he was on the ice, the highest of such measures for the team since his trade from Florida. Booth also led the Canucks in Relative Corsi, another on-ice shot differential metric.
For the last year or so, Booth has struggled to get the good bounces. He had one of the lowest PDOs in hockey last season, PDO being the simple addition of team shooting percentage and goaltender save percentage at even strength when a player is on the ice. Booth's PDO was the fourth lowest in the league among forwards last season, an indication that things were about to turn around for him. And they were beginning to. In his last five games before he got hurt, Booth had three goals, two assists and was a +4 rating, as pucks started to find the back of the net again.
This is a pretty tight loss for the Canucks, although they are a good enough hockey team without him, Booth's skating ability helped the Canucks advance the puck when he was on the ice. His presence in the lineup helped vault the Canucks from a very good possession team to the best puck possession team in the NHL. He took around three shots a game, while his replacement may take one or two fewer throughout a game.
So, again, the Canucks lose a couple of shots a game and a bit of speed. The return of Mason Raymond could not be better timed, and while Raymond is not quite the replacement for Booth the team needs, he's a player who brings a lot of outside speed who can play Ryan Kesler's wing. This is a chance for Raymond to display his value to the Vancouver Canucks, who can now only hope that the winger doesn't suffer any setbacks in his upcoming recovery.


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Nielsen SoundScan is releasing its tabulations of the best-selling artists of the decade today. And, given that this was probably the most depressing decade in the history of everything ever, it won't surprise you to know that the results are less than heartening. According to USA Today,
With 32.2 million copies sold, Eminem leads the pack in overall album sales, followed by The Beatles with 30 million.
Slim Shady claims two of the decades' five best-selling albums with The Marshall Mathers LP (#4) and The Eminem Show (#5). The top three albums were:
1. 1, The Beatles
2. No Strings Attached, N*Sync
3. Come Away With Me, Norah Jones
I have nothing against Eminem or The Beatles. The Beatles are the most important rock band of all time, and Eminem is brilliant on the mic and willing to expose his own demons far more than the average hip hop artist.
But it's depressing to think that the decade's number one album (and likely the only truly lasting album of the top 5) came from a group that disbanded nearly four decades ago. And while Eminem is a compelling artist in many ways, do you know anyone who still listens to either of those two albums? Eminem's catalog, particularly big hits like "Without Me," has the shelf life of ground beef. You won't see his name among the decade's best sellers at the end of the 2040s.
What this decade lacked, from a rock perspective, was a handful of bands that truly mattered. That were simultaneously the best at what they did and were the most popular as well. There was only one band that fit that criteria in the past ten years: Radiohead. And even they couldn't outsell The Beatles.
That's a bad sign for an industry whose current business model is now based on the honor system. One transcendent rock band isn't enough. We need more. We need to replenish the pool of universally beloved artists, so that we don't have to go through a Beatles or Stones revival once every five years. I love both those bands, but it's time for them to take their rightful place in history and make way for the new blood. Permanently. Here's hoping the next decade will bring us not just one Radiohead, but a dozen of them. And that the face of rock is not the same face we've seen for half a century.
Drew Magary is a writer for deadspin.com.


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Vacation rental properties in Aruba
There are a variety of vacation property rentals available in Aruba to suit every type of traveler. Whether you are looking for a no frills cosy studio apartment, a private beach side villa, a luxurious condo or a fully furnished timeshare unit, Aruba offers it all. Available properties can be found in all price ranges and depend on location, group size, level of comfort, square footage and amenities. Based on the wide range of available properties in Aruba, it won't be difficult to find the perfect vacation rental just for you.
Vacation House or Villa in Aruba
There are many comfortable villas available for rent throughout the year in Aruba. However December is the busiest time in the year and many villas are rented several months in advance. With villa property rentals you will have plenty of room for the whole family or a large group of friends and you will have your own space with complete privacy from other tourists. By staying in a villa you will enjoy the same comforts you enjoy at home, such as a fully equipped kitchen, multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, barbecue and private outdoor seating space and any other features you might be looking for in the perfect vacation house. Some villas feature a pool, while other are located within walking distance of the beach.
If you are interested in an Aruba vacation villa or house rental, many home owners rent their villas themselves or use a rental agencies. Please find below some vacation rental properties:
Aruba Beach Front Villa
Aruba Beach Front Villa offers an escape from crowded hotel beaches by providing your very own beach side accommodation. Relax in this beautiful seaside home possessing the best of what Aruba has to offer...Read more
Opal Villa
Villa Opal is a tropical gem, waiting for you to be discovered. It is the ideal holiday home for a family or a group of friends to get away from it all. Villa Opal is located in the upscale neighborhood of Rooi Santo (Malmok/Westpunt area), close to the beach, the Aruba Racquet Club and the Tierra del Sol Golf Club...Read more
Vacation Condo or Apartment Rental in Aruba
Many visitors select a condo or apartment as their vacation property. In Aruba, there are a number of conveniently located apartments that come fully furnished and are ideal for both short-term and long-term stays. Rentals are available across the island including spots near Palm Beach, Eagle Beach, Noord, downtown Oranjestad, and towards San Nicolas. Choose among a studio, one-bedroom, or a two-bedroom condo-apartment rental that includes a kitchen, complete apartment furnishings, or a comfortable community feeling among the other residents, both vacationers and Aruba locals.
Many travelers to Aruba prefer vacation apartments as rentals over a resort or hotel because of size, convenience, and the at-home atmosphere. Depending on the apartment, you may have free internet access, daily housekeeping services, breakfast, a pool, outdoor dining facilities like a barbecue and patio seating, among many other amenities. Whether you stay for one week or three months, there are varieties of options for a condo-apartment rental in Aruba.
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Blue Residences
Located adjacent to J.E. Irausquin Boulevard across the street from a small white sand beach and less than half a mile from Aruba's two most popular beaches and tourist areas...Read more
The Residences at Divi Village Golf & Beach Resort
The Residences at Divi Village Golf & Beach Resort are a luxury collection of resort condominiums available for private ownership on the idyllic island of Aruba. Nestled within the lush greens of the Links at Divi Aruba golf course, the Residences offer you a stylish island home with all the indulgences of a premiere Aruba vacation resort...Read more
This luxurious condominium will take you to a place that is worlds away and is just a few minutes from Queen Beatrix International Airport. Oceania Residences represent the finest apartments for the condo-oriented family. Beautifully decorated, Oceania Residences offer a variety of apartments...Read more
Rent a Timeshare
A timeshare unit often goes beyond a regular hotel room in that it usually also includes a kitchen and can also include more than one bedroom, plus a living room. Timeshare units include the amenities offered by the resort or hotel, such as a fitness center, business services, pool and on-site restaurants. For more information about timeshare rentals, please visit our Timeshare rentals page. If you would like to see a list of the different timeshare resorts in Aruba and what they have to offer, please visit our Timeshare page.


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Simon Cowell may have recently departed from "American Idol," but former contestant Clay Aiken wouldn't mind keeping the seat warm.
The singer, who was the runner-up on the second season of "Idol," recently told Billboard.com that he would entertain the idea of being a judge on the show.
"Well, I'm so far removed from it at this point that I don't know if I remember what it's like, but who knows. I would not put myself out there to be as caustic as [Cowell] is, but if they want to call me, bring it on. We can talk."
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For now, Aiken is set to have a busy summer. On July 23, he will embark on a tour with his former "Idol" rival, second-season winner Ruben Studdard. According to Aiken, the idea of touring with Studdard had been previously discussed but never came to be.
"But both of us looked at our calendars around December of last year, January of this year, and said, 'Wait a second, we don't have anything this summer we're dealing with.' He's working on an album right now, and mine will have just been released, so...'Let's just do this. It's now or never."
Earlier this month, Aiken put out his latest record, "Tried & True," an album of pop standards featuring such songs as "Mack the Knife," "Unchained Melody" and "Moon River."


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For dessert, Grimes was inspired by something from Vienna, a little farther along the Danube: linzertorte. It's traditionally made with hazelnuts and raspberry jam, but this version, with its warmly spiced almond pastry and vivid apricot filling, spoke to Grimes of the highly polished coffeehouses in that part of the world. Cooking dried apricots with brandy and sugar allows you to control the sweetness quotient, and the result is all about the magically musky, tangy fruit.
- Yield
- Makes 8 servings
- Active Time
- 40 min
- Total Time
- 4 hr (includes cooling)
- For pastry:
- 2 cups whole almonds with skins (10 ounces), toasted and cooled completely
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon pure almond extract
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
- 1 1/2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- For filling:
- 1 cup water
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup brandy
- 8 ounces dried Pacific apricots
- Confectioners sugar for dusting
- Equipment: a 10-inch springform pan
- Make pastry:
- Pulse toasted almonds and sugar in a food processor until nuts are finely ground. Sift together flour, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves into a bowl, then add to ground nuts in processor and pulse to combine.
- Lightly beat yolks, extracts, and zest in a small bowl with a fork. Add to food processor along with butter, then pulse until dough forms a ball. Form one third of dough into a disk, then roll out between 2 sheets of plastic wrap into a 10-inch round. Transfer to a baking sheet and chill until firm, about 10 minutes. Roll out remaining dough between 2 sheets of plastic wrap into a 12-inch round, then transfer to another baking sheet and chill until firm, about 10 minutes.
- Make filling:
- Simmer water, sugar, brandy, and apricots in a small saucepan, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until apricots are tender and liquid is syrupy, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer mixture to cleaned food processor and pulse until almost smooth. Spread mixture onto a plate and chill 15 minutes.
- Bake torte:
- Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
- Remove bottom of springform pan and invert, then lock on side. Remove larger dough round from refrigerator and peel off top layer of plastic wrap, then invert round into pan (pastry will break in spots). Press dough evenly onto bottom, then discard plastic. Fold in edge of dough and press 1/2 inch up side of pan (side will be thicker than bottom). Press gently to close any cracks.
- Bake pastry until lightly browned, about 20 minutes, then cool completely on a rack, about 30 minutes. (Dough will puff up as it bakes but will settle as it cools.)
- Spread filling into crust with an offset spatula or back of a spoon.
- Peel top layer of plastic wrap from smaller dough round, then cut round into 1/2-inch-wide strips. (Chill strips again if necessary.) Arrange half of strips over filling about 1 inch apart, pressing ends onto edge of torte. Arrange remaining strips across first strips to form a simple lattice. Press edges together with your fingertips.
- Bake until top is browned, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
- Before serving, remove side of pan and dust edge of torte with confectioners sugar.
Torte (without confectioners sugar) can be made up to 2 days ahead and kept, covered, at room temperature.


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Carmen Vallone
When spoken aloud, Carmen Vallone's name resonates as majestically as trumpets blown by the highest choir of angels in the kingdom of heaven. Don't worry though, his ticket price usually isn't any higher then about twelve bucks. With his enthusiastic smile, and happily twisted vision of everyday life, Carmen guides you through a night of entertainment as he talks about being from Upstate New York, living in Florida, and what life is like on the road. Never one to "attack" the audience, Carmen makes you feel right at home, and you'll never be scared to "sit in the front row".
In his seven years of comedy, Carmen has been so many places and performed on so many stages, you might think he had been doing comedy for eight years. He has been night clubbing with Bob Saget, he has drank champagne with Joan Rivers, and he went to a BBQ with Jim Carey. You might have seen Carmen on NBC's Last Comic Standing, CBS's Comedy Night School, or Jamie Kennedy's "Heckler" movie, but probably not. In addition to being a hilarious stand-up comedian, Carmen is also the host and producer of "A Joke Off ! ! !™". A nationally touring comedy competition, currently in development for national TV.
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So God Made a Banker
A little comedic relief for our readers this weekend as we contemplate what America once was, and what it has become.
And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise, and said I need a lender. So God made a banker.
God said I need somebody to make a synthetic derivative, write zero down loans, make interest out of nothing and dollars out of thin air. Foreclose on homes, accept bailouts from the poor, come up with TWIST & easing lowering interest rates, finish his 40 hour week Tuesday at noon and then foreclose again…
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PogoLinux RAID Workstation
Manufacturer: PogoLinux
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Price: $1,499 US
Reviewer: Choong Ng
For those that are unfamiliar with RAID, RAID stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks. The idea is that one may provide enhanced reliability or performance by using an array of relatively inexpensive disk drives combined with a special hardware or software controller. The three most common RAID configurations are called RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5. RAID 0, also known as striping, is the division of data between drives such that a single read or write operation may combine data from two or more hard drives, thus increasing the aggregate transfer rate. RAID 1, also known as mirroring, does the opposite of RAID 0: instead of focusing on performance, RAID 1 focuses on increasing reliability by storing multiple copies of your data on different drives, thus reducing the chance of a drive failure destroying your data. I opted to have the workstation preconfigured with RAID 0 for the enhanced performance.
Setting up the Velocity was a breeze: five minutes to get it out of the box and onto my desk and another ten to boot it up and configure it to talk to the network. Those of you who will want to add custom hardware such as a preferred graphics board, gigabit Ethernet or a DVD drive will appreciate the Velocity's maintenance-friendly case with just two thumbscrews between you and the motherboard. Red Hat 7 will recognize most third-party hardware without problems.
There are two big issues to be aware of before you set up the system. One is that the default Red Hat 7 has a long list of known problems, and because of this you may have trouble getting some applications to run properly. The other major issue that I ran into is that the kernel needs special parameters to boot properly from the Promise RAID hardware. This only becomes an issue if you want to replace the kernel or install an alternative Linux distribution; Pogo's default configuration works fine. The usual symptom is a kernel panic when the kernel attempts to mount partitions, but the fix is simply to provide the kernel with the correct I/O addresses. For a detailed explanation of how to do this see Aaron Cline's "Unofficial Asus A7V and Linux ATA100 Quasi-Mini-Howto" at http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/. Once the machine recognizes the card no further configuration is necessary to take advantage of the RAID controller, and other than the issues just mentioned, I had no problems with setup.
My overall first impression is that the Velocity is a very speedy machine—as one would expect from any 1GHz Athlon box—and fairly well put together. As someone who frequently swaps hardware out of my machines I also appreciate the ease of opening the case via the thumbscrew-attached side panels. Having set up the machine and played with it for a little bit, it is time to measure how fast the Velocity really is.
For these benchmarks, the PogoLinux RAID box in RAID 0 mode will be compared to a similarly configured non-RAID system, same motherboard and processor (well, A7Pro vs. A7V), same RAM and a similar ATA 100 drive (but just one for the non-RAID system).
Listing 1. PogoLinux Velocity (RAID 0)
Using the Bonnie benchmark suite, the PogoLinux box produced some interesting results. Tests that performed large numbers of very small disk transactions did very poorly on the PogoLinux RAID box—about half as fast as the comparison system—while tests that rely on fewer transactions involving larger amounts of data did much better, right in the middle of the 40-50MB/s transfer rate quoted by PogoLinux. This information is very important when one is considering the purchase of approximately $1,578 worth of hardware. So, on to a real-world test.
To compile Mozilla, use the time command for measurement, as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Times (mm:ss.s) and Improvement (%)
In most applications, the RAID system didn't perform noticeably differently from the single drive system. Some tasks, such as untarring Mozilla, actually came out slower on the RAID system. Compiling Mozilla was only faster by about ten seconds out of 50 minutes. This is indicative of a near-universal truth in computing: aggregation can buy you increased bandwidth, but it can't buy decreased latency. The likely explanation for why the RAID 0 system has relatively poor performance when performing many small accesses is rather lengthy, but suffice it to say that it is related to the fact that having to wait for two read/write heads instead of one increases the array's average seek time.
What this means in the real world is that having a RAID 0 disk system will only accelerate tasks where large amounts of contiguous data is transferred (where increased transfer rates help) and not tasks that require many small disk accesses (where disk latency is more important than transfer rate). One good example of this is working with applications that use large data files, such as editing high-resolution photos in the GIMP, where I did indeed notice significant improvement in loading and saving large files.
Other tasks that benefit from increased disk transfer rates include database searches, video editing or any type of high-bandwidth data capture (i.e., direct-to-disk audio and video). Tasks that won't benefit from RAID 0 (especially as opposed to having two drives operating independently) include file servers serving many concurrent users making small requests, database servers supporting similar workloads, most general-purpose applications and development software, etc.
For many users' purposes, a RAID 0 system will provide less performance benefit than spending the equivalent money on getting a single fast hard drive, faster processor, more RAM or a faster motherboard. The price difference between PogoLinux's Velocity workstation and a similarly configured workstation without RAID, such as PogoLinux's Altura workstation, is about $300 if you still buy another 45GB IBM hard drive. For $300 you can buy a 1.2GHz Athlon (instead of 1.0), an extra 256MB of RAM (or an extra 512MB if you stretch it to $370) or a 64MB GeForce2 GTS (instead of the included 32MB MX). On the other hand, if you really need the maximum throughput for working with large files or the reliability of a RAID 1 configuration, the RAID system is definitely the way to go.